Koozali.org: home of the SME Server

Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: florim on May 31, 2007, 12:40:16 AM

Title: network problem sme 7.1.3
Post by: florim on May 31, 2007, 12:40:16 AM

Hello i have upgrade my sme box to latest updates but now i have little problem and i cant find any solutions my problem is that i can ping the server form my local machine but i cant ping from server ssh to my workstation i have installed vpn bridge and i working fine from my workstation that is conected to local network i can ping clients that are connected to my server through vpn but they cant ping me where is problem please help


best regards

Title: any one gays
Post by: florim on June 03, 2007, 12:37:52 AM

this mean that no one else has idea what is going on  :cry:

Title: network problem sme 7.1.3
Post by: Confucius on June 03, 2007, 01:00:29 AM

Too little details

For a start...

Workstation is prob. windows ?
Does this workstation have a firewall blocking ping requests ?

Server seems to do ok based on your story. So I would dig in the workstation differences.

Harro

Title: network problem sme 7.1.3
Post by: mike_mattos on June 03, 2007, 10:04:30 PM

I replaced a motherboard with onboard LAN card & reinstalled XP on a machine to solve this problem, it came back a week later!

turned out McAfee was somehow creating a list of acceptable IP's and changing SME server with a new IP range meant the new server could not ping the work station even though the station was a SAMBA client!
 
this problem also killed VPN to the mcafee infected workstation!  

Finally found the right panel in Mcafee to undo the block.  No idea why the local network was blocked in Mcafee, I suspect it was some cryptic message like "unknown computer trying to access your system, allow/deny" , user clicks deny, and BAM, no ping and no VPN!

Title: network problem sme 7.1.3
Post by: mike_mattos on June 03, 2007, 10:04:48 PM

I replaced a motherboard with onboard LAN card & reinstalled XP on a machine to solve this problem, it came back a week later!

turned out McAfee was somehow creating a list of acceptable IP's and changing SME server with a new IP range meant the new server could not ping the work station even though the station was a SAMBA client!
 
this problem also killed VPN to the mcafee infected workstation!  

Finally found the right panel in Mcafee to undo the block.  No idea why the local network was blocked in Mcafee, I suspect it was some cryptic message like "unknown computer trying to access your system, allow/deny" , user clicks deny, and BAM, no ping and no VPN!